Industry-Specific Information

Discrete Manufacturing

As a manufacturer in the discrete industry, you face a number of challenges related to globalization, continually changing customer demands, and price competition, to name a few. With the SAP for Discrete, you can integrate your business processes and information – and optimize the various aspects of your business.

To succeed, you must coordinate distributed sales, engineering, and manufacturing to accelerate design and delivery of products. In addition, you need to offer aftermarket sales and services that differentiate you from the competition.

With more than 30 years of experience working with companies in the Discrete industry, and several thousand implementations for manufacturers, SAP developed the SAP Best Practices for Discrete Manufacturing package. This package provides preconfiguration, documentation, methodology and tools to flexibly deploy key business processes quickly. With the scope and content provided in SAP Best Practices for Discrete Manufacturing, you can manage processes from customer order management and production to regulatory compliance and financial management and get every facet of your business running smoothly.